Muscat, sentence 47
From Wikipedia, «Muscat», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Decisively, in 1650, a small but determined body of the Imam's troops attacked the port at night, forcing an eventual Portuguese surrender on January 23, 1650.
Who acts: small body · What happens: attack, force · To what, where: port, 1650, eventual Portuguese surrender, 23
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Muscat». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Decisively | decisively | ADV | _ | 16 attacked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Decisively | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1650 | case |
| 4 | 1650 | 1650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 attacked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 1650 | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 body | amod |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 determined | cc |
| 9 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 small | conj |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 attacked | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 troops | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Imam | det |
| 13 | Imam | Imam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 troops | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Imam | case |
| 15 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 body | nmod |
| 16 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 port | det |
| 18 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 attacked | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 attacked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forcing | punct |
| 22 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 attacked | advcl |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 surrender | det |
| 24 | eventual | eventual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 surrender | amod |
| 25 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 surrender | amod |
| 26 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forcing | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 23 | case |
| 28 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 forcing | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 1650 | punct |
| 31 | 1650 | 1650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 23 | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past | a small body of the Imam's troops | the port | 1650 | night | decisively property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Patient | |
| 2 | force | gerund | a small body of the Imam's troops not said here | a eventual Portuguese surrender | 23 January | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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